“A Tale of Two High Jumpers” is an excerpt from The Sports Gene by David Epstein. It talks about two high jumpers Donald Thomas and Stefan Holm‚ one had a twenty year love with high jumping the other one got lucky. Both men were excellent high jumpers. Outliers is an excerpt from “The 10‚000-Hour Rule by Malcolm Gladwell. It talks about studies done on individuals which ones become professional and why they become professional. Also how the amount of practice was different from the professionals
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Blink‚ blink. I stare at Chris Matthews on the television for the first time as his words ring familiar in my head. It’s the third time I hear his words‚ because his show repeats several times in the evening news cycle. The TV has been on all day while I worked on my computer‚ but its the first time I look at his face. All day I’ve focused on my Mac screen‚ working on my projects. Mostly a design for a new mobile website for Resurrection Hospital‚ but also the daycare site‚ the moving company site
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell is a self-reflection provoking book in which the author takes us by the hand and guides us through our mind on the unconscious side of things. To blink is to perform beyond the speed of light; a brief‚ rapid movement that is done in a quick flash and is typically unnoticeable. The book relates to this action through the examination of our minds and how we unknowingly react to high speed and on the spot situations. The thesis of the
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XXXXXX XXXXXXX Mr. XXXXX English 84 February 1‚ 2013 One of the Major Causes of Obesity Mark Bittman’s article “Coke Blinks” discusses how the famous soda company‚ Coca-Cola‚ recently released a video where it addresses the growing problem in our nation of obesity. In the video Coca-Cola attempts to claim that it is not their fault people are obese; it’s the consumers fault because the company offers low calorie beverages and now has smaller proportioned drinks. They are basically saying that
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Thesis: People should not trust their ability to thin-slice in situations. I think that Malcolm Gladwell has proven that in experts‚ decisions should not be made in the blink of an eye. Body 2: Similarly‚ the concept of thin-slicing has its disadvantages because it proves that people are “really vulnerable to being guided by stereotypes‚”(Gladwell‚ 233). This holds true in cases often regarding race. For example‚ prior to the school integration of white and black children in the late 1950’s‚
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would change forever with a big bang. The new-school punk trio‚ Blink-182 came bursting into the hearts and voices of teenagers with their loud‚ vulgar‚ crude-humored‚ rebellious‚ truthful‚ honest and strong-willed lyrics. Blink-182 was the voice of every teenager. They found a way to connect and relate to every hormonal teen who struggled with the hardships of being a teenager in society such as the songs‚ “Dammit” and “Anthem Pt. 2”. Blink-182 became the ring leader by demonstrating such things in the
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Blink of the Mind Blink‚ this wonderful book from Malcolm Gladwell sparked my interest from the moment I read a brief summary over it. The book covers over how individuals are able to make lightning fast decisions accurately as if they had thought it out. During my last remaining weeks of procrastination I found this book was enjoyable until its unfortunate end of the last page. The book held many favorable page turners for me. As I was already a fan of how people’s minds work. It talked about thin-slicing
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Song for this part: Adam’s song - Blink-182 “So this is my place” Trace says when he closes the front door carefully. I stare back and forth at the small apartment. It’s empty it has barely any furniture. Trace doesn’t say anything he is balancing on his heels back and forth. He withdraws before saying anything. “Are we going to start?” I ask him. For the first time I am the one helping someone with the homework’s. Trace needed help with the chemistry homework. My eyes glances over the boxes in
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Blink and You Miss It Questions: 1. Who is Sammy? 2. What is he doing? 3. Where does Sammy live? 4. What does Sammy make the narrator think about? 5. Who is the beach guru? 6. Who are the followers? 7. How does the narrator feel about him now? 8. Where in the world are they? 9. What is everyone looking forward to? 10. What is their major problem? 11. Why are the police angry? 12. How does the guru solve the problem? 13. Who is their dealer
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Among the thought provoking topics Gladwell presents in Blink‚ I found slicing as one the most interesting. The idea that short snippets of information can potentially allow more accurate perceptions of people and situations than longer periods with in-depth study and exposure to information. The awareness of the unconscious realizations occurring much quicker and more accurately than cognitive thought‚ inspires additional pontificate on ways to cut through the noise that interferes with conscious
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